The Media's Portrayal of Trump and His Presidency

[SoCal Deek]

Liberals are born protestors. It’s in their DNA. It’s what’s always made them liberals. They live and love to fight against injustice...I get it. The problem is that in 21st Century America there’s so little true injustice around that they’ve gotten into some really, really fringe issues. Most people say that they’ve moved too far to the left, but I actually believe it’s all stems from their generationally common desire to protest against The Man. Unfortunately for this generation of liberals, The Man just isn’t all that oppressive anymore.

[B-Man]

DANIEL GREENFIELD ON THE PRESS’S FIRST AMENDMENT THEORIES: 

 

The Media Master Race.

 

Bernie Sanders wrapped up his appeal to the media by suggesting a tax on targeted ads to fund “civic-minded media” because, “more than two centuries after the constitution was signed, we cannot sit by and allow corporations, billionaires, and demagogues to destroy the Fourth Estate.”

 

 

The Fourth Estate is a European concept. There’s no room in America for a special status for the media (or any other estates). Sanders ignores what the constitution actually says about the press. The First Amendment prohibits Congress from making laws “abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.”

Freedom of the press doesn’t bestow a special status on the press. It springs from freedom of speech.

 

That is even more obvious in Madison’s original words, “The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty shall be inviolable.” A free press is an expression of everyone’s right to speak out. It is not a special institution that represents the public interest. It is the actual public.

 

When the Framers wrote of a free press, they meant printers like Benjamin Franklin and his brother, and anyone who wanted to distribute a pamphlet, as well as the small number of larger papers. Their idea of the free press looked a lot like a low-tech internet and had nothing in common with a handful of giant corporate monopolies declaring that they are a journalistic priesthood serving the public interest.

 

Sanders’ proposal for a government-funded “non-profit civic funded media” is even worse. The First Amendment banned government interference with a free press. The socialist politician would like to replace it with a government press that would promote his government takeover of medicine.

 

A government takeover of the media is the opposite of the constitution’s guarantee of a free press.

 

Ever since Trump won, the media has been insisting that it is a unique institution that must be protected from criticism by politicians (CNN and other outlets have claimed that Trump’s criticism of them is a threat to the First Amendment) and from competing speech by rival outlets and ordinary people.

 

Media pressure campaigns on tech monopolies have convinced them to ban a number of conservative outlets and personalities to fight ‘disinformation’, ‘fake news’, and other meaningless terms. The media and its allies set up ‘fact checking’ services that largely ignored their own biases to target conservatives. The purpose of these ‘fact checking’ services isn’t to argue, but to advocate for censoring conservatives.

 

More at the link:

 

 

[Hedge]

Thread.

 

 

[B-Man]

Cry us a RIVER, bro: Brian Stelter does himself and other ‘journos’ NO favors playing the media victim card again (watch)

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

TDS ALERT: The Washington Post paid a reporter to travel to Alabama and investigate how Hurricane Dorian didn’t do any damage

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[row_33]

11 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

TDS ALERT: The Washington Post paid a reporter to travel to Alabama and investigate how Hurricane Dorian didn’t do any damage

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pretty big state, could take a while to cover it

 

 

[Deranged Rhino]

Bow to China, Gray Lady, bow to China. 

 

[B-Man]

 

 

NBC News wonders: Why is ending child marriage so controversial?

 

[B-Man]

2 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

Bow to China, Gray Lady, bow to China. 

 

 

 

Update:

 

 

[row_33]

2 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

Bow to China, Gray Lady, bow to China. 

 

 

NYT completely swept under the rug the horror of the murders of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot for a long time until they couldn't hide it any more.

 

 

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31 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Update:

 

 

 

can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, amirite?

[Joe Miner]

20 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

 

can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs, amirite?

 

But as we've learned from the abortion crowd, egg lives don't matter.

 

Unless they're bald eagle eggs.  Those things are precious bald eagle lives dammit.

[DC Tom]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

 

Update:

 

 

 

But...they were right.  He was a great revolutionary figure.

 

That he killed 60 million people doesn't change that.  

[B-Man]

The NYT 1953 obit of Joseph Stalin is still online though, as is their recent article about “Why Women Had Better Sex Under Socialism.”

 

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[B-Man]

New York Times writer’s advice to Democrats: Lie about what you believe to defeat Trump

by Eddie Scarry

 

Original Article

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

HE’S NOT WRONG: Angry Trump: ‘The Media Are an Arm of the Democrat Party.’

 

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

“AIRPLANES TOOK AIM”:           ? 

 

 

Was no one flying the planes? Were they motivated by anything in particular?

 

For a newspaper of record, the NYT sure seems to miss an awful lot of historical context.

 

UPDATE: The tweet has since been deleted, but screencaps are forever.

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

More NYT.

 

 

 

[row_33]

1 hour ago, B-Man said:

More NYT.

 

 

 

 

 

that's the only demographic reading the paper or taking it seriously any more?

 

[B-Man]

THEY DIDN’T BUTCHER IT; THEY’RE HACKS WHO HACKED IT: PolitiFact Butchers Fact Check On Trump And Ralph Northam.

 

 

Previously: Michael Brown PolitiFact Check: Murder Is What Democrats Say It Is, or Something.

 

 

[B-Man]

 

I.....................I simply cannot believe  that people are this stupid

 

Holy TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, Batman!

‘Conservative’ MSNBC political analyst Rick Tyler spots something sinister in Melania Trump’s jacket in 9/11 photo

 

 

To mark the 18th anniversary, Donald Trump pulled an Obama and posted a photo of himself and Melania:

 

But most people probably missed an important detail. Fortunately, fired Ted Cruz comms director, MSNBC political analyst, and self-professed “conservative” Rick Tyler spotted it:

 

 

 

He is seeing shapes in a pattern in a woman's coat.

 

This is our US media. On 9/11.

 

It’s a strap with a button and a button hole. However, I do see a delusional political analyst who deserves to be mocked.

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

The media is scum, they don't even hide it anymore.

 

They must be called out on it every time.

WaPo: “Clarification”: On Second Thought, Maybe The NC GOP Didn’t Exploit 9/11 Memorial To Override Cooper Veto

 

The Post didn’t just “overly generalize” what happened. It flat-out got it wrong, because its reporters just repeated the Democrats’ allegations without checking with other reporters or even the other Republicans to find out the facts. And now, even when presented with the facts, the Washington Post is still spinning for the Democrats rather than just admitting to getting caught with their pants down.

 

But hey, democracy dies in darkness, or something.

 

 

https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/09/12/wapo-clarification-second-thought-maybe-nc-gop-didnt-exploit-9-11-memorial-override-cooper-veto/

Edited September 12, 2019 by B-Man

[B-Man]

Same as it ever was—anti-GOP Media slams the economy

by Larry Elder

Original Article

 

As it did in 1992, the anti-Republican media is covering Trump’s economy as negatively as possible while keeping a straight face.

 

After all, unemployment is at historical lows, most Americans feel optimistic about their own economic future, and most credit Trump with the growing economy. Trump’s predecessor was the first president since 1949 to preside over an economic recovery without a single year averaging at least 3% gross domestic product growth.But Democrats, the media and Trump-hating pundits seem almost giddy at the prospect of a recession.

[Chef Jim]

On 9/11/2019 at 11:07 AM, B-Man said:

 

I.....................I simply cannot believe  that people are this stupid

 

Holy TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, Batman!

‘Conservative’ MSNBC political analyst Rick Tyler spots something sinister in Melania Trump’s jacket in 9/11 photo

 

 

To mark the 18th anniversary, Donald Trump pulled an Obama and posted a photo of himself and Melania:

 

But most people probably missed an important detail. Fortunately, fired Ted Cruz comms director, MSNBC political analyst, and self-professed “conservative” Rick Tyler spotted it:

 

 

 

He is seeing shapes in a pattern in a woman's coat.

 

This is our US media. On 9/11.

 

It’s a strap with a button and a button hole. However, I do see a delusional political analyst who deserves to be mocked.

 

 

 

 

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I don’t know man. Yes I’m looking at this on my phone but to me it looks like an alien spaceship crashing into the Washington Monument.  I’m not saying it was aliens but........

[B-Man]

 

[B-Man]

RUB THEIR NOSES IN IT: 

 

Ted Cruz reminds PolitiFact of prior ‘False’ ruling on ‘Beto wants to take our guns’ claim.

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

WE’VE DESCENDED INTO SOME SORT OF BIZARRE HELL-WORLD IN WHICH ANDREW SULLIVAN IS A VOICE OF SANITY: 

With the “1619 Project” the New York Times Has Abandoned Liberalism for Activism.

But the NYT chose a neo-Marxist rather than liberal path to make a very specific claim: that slavery is not one of many things that describe America’s founding and culture, it is the definitive one. Arguing that the “true founding” was the arrival of African slaves on the continent, period, is a bitter rebuke to the actual founders and Lincoln. America is not a messy, evolving, multicultural, religiously infused, Enlightenment-based, racist, liberating, wealth-generating kaleidoscope of a society. It’s white supremacy, which started in 1619, and that’s the key to understand all of it. America’s only virtue, in this telling, belongs to those who have attempted and still attempt to end this malign manifestation of white supremacy.

 

I don’t believe most African-Americans believe this, outside the elites. They’re much less doctrinaire than elite white leftists on a whole range of subjects. I don’t buy it either — alongside, I suspect, most immigrants, including most immigrants of color. Who would ever want to immigrate to such a vile and oppressive place? But it is extremely telling that this is not merely aired in the paper of record (as it should be), but that it is aggressively presented as objective reality. That’s propaganda, directed, as we now know, from the very top — and now being marched through the entire educational system to achieve a specific end. To present a truth as the truth is, in fact, a deception. And it is hard to trust a paper engaged in trying to deceive its readers in order for its radical reporters and weak editors to transform the world.

 

 

To be fair, it’s been “Gray Lady Down” for quite some time now.

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

‘Pulitzer’!      WaPo fact-checks Trump’s joke about effect of energy-saving light bulbs

 

 

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On 9/13/2019 at 9:12 AM, Chef Jim said:

 

I don’t know man. Yes I’m looking at this on my phone but to me it looks like an alien spaceship crashing into the Washington Monument.  I’m not saying it was aliens but........

 

i see a phallic symbol pointed towards Melania's butt

[Deranged Rhino]

1 minute ago, /dev/null said:

 

i see a phallic symbol pointed towards Melania's butt

 

Thats your reflection in the mirror.  

[Deranged Rhino]

 

 

 

 

 

[DC Tom]

3 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

So who's left?

 

[Deranged Rhino]

30 minutes ago, DC Tom said:

 

So who's left?

 

  

He's as bad as the above -- just answers to different folk. 

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[DC Tom]

12 hours ago, Deranged Rhino said:

 

 

Even harder to be a leader when you have no understanding of conditions on the ground, waffle on your "red line" policy, and hand over your entire Middle Eastern policy to Russia. 

 

I just finished an interesting book by an intelligence source embedded with al Qaeda from the early 90s on.  The Obama administration's absolute ignorance of conditions in Syria and motivations of ISIS and AQAP are enough to make one believe he was covertly supporting ISIS.

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[Deranged Rhino]

 

[B-Man]

THE IMPORTANCE OF PUNCHING BACK:

 

 

 

 

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

Sadly plausible..............

 

 

New York Times Reveals Source On Kavanaugh Allegations Was Reputable Nigerian Prince.

 

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[B-Man]

 

 

You remember NEWSWEEK magazine ?  It used to be important

 

 

More on this developing scandal:

A distant cousin of the president, Alice Mackay—related to Trump through his mother’s family, the McLeods—said the commander-in-chief is an unpleasant man who has never used any of his wealth to help his mother’s local community.

The 79-year-old spoke in glowing terms about Trump’s late mother—Mary Anne MacLeod, who died in 2000—and his older sister—Maryanne Trump Barry, 82—saying they were both generous people who made many contributions to the Isle of Lewis, an island located in Scotland’s far northern Outer Hebrides archipelago.

Mackay told Scottish newspaper The National: “I don’t like the man at all, he’s so unlike his mother and father.” She recalled that Mary Anne and Fred Trump were “lovely parents, I don’t know what went wrong with him. My mum and dad were second cousins. Every time they were over here they came to ours for dinner.

Mackay recalled one morning when the future president committed two social faux pas in quick succession. “He was here one morning I was busy making pancakes and he had forgotten my husband had died,” she said. “He put a few pancakes in [his] pocket and never said ‘cheerio’ or anything.”

 

Trump will never recover from this. Never.

 

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2019/09/16/delete-your-magazine-newsweek-has-uncovered-another-donald-trump-scandal-in-what-may-very-well-be-their-most-pathetic-story-yet/